You can let go of your understandable trepidation; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is easily one of the best legacy sequels ever made, a fun and endlessly inventive return to Tim Burton’s macabre world huskily breathing underneath quaint small-town America. More than the usual cash grab and anything but ...
Read MoreThe trailers for Alien: Romulus sold it as a trip back to the franchise’s origins, and it certainly is that, but not in the way most of us probably hoped. This is not just a throwback in a similar horror vein to Alien but yet another sequel that stands on the franchise’s past like a rickety la...
Read MoreBorderlands is based on a video game series of the same name made by Gearbox Software and published by 2K for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, among other platforms. I am not a big gamer and rarely know much about video games, so I was attracted to the Borderlands movie for the same reasons I would &helli...
Read MoreLike most people, I find M. Night Shyamalan to be hit or miss. But honestly, that’s most directors, and I think he’s only singled out because his first big movie was so popular. Anyway, I wanted to see Trap because I’m interested in themes Shyamalan tends to revisit – psychology, mysticism, ...
Read MoreThere’s a reason Marvel sold Deadpool & Wolverine on the premise and the cameos; those and the humor are the strongest parts of the movie, the rest of which sits on a rickety plot, bland villains, and character work that comes way too late to have the impact it should. But it’s fun – oh b...
Read MoreI’ve never seen Twister. I’ve always been vaguely aware of it, but I don’t tend to like disaster movies because they’re about spectacle and survival rather than characters and their morality. Naturally, I didn’t plan on seeing Twisters for the same reasons and because I didn’t see the or...
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